List of universities by number of billionaire alumni
Harvard University has more billionaires among its alumni than any other university in the world.[1] Fifty-two current billionaires have undergraduate or graduate degrees from Harvard University. In second place is the University of Pennsylvania with 28 alumni.
The 10 top universities by number of billionaires and total wealth
- Harvard University - 52, $205 billion
- University of Pennsylvania - 28, $112 billion
- Stanford University - 27, $76 billion
- New York University - 17, $68 billion
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 15, $114 billion
- Columbia University - 15, $96 billion
- Cornell University - 14, $35 billion
- University of Southern California - 14, $32 billion
- Yale University - 13, $77 billion
- University of Cambridge - 11, $48 billion
Counting only undergraduate degrees, the University of Pennsylvania comes in first place.[2] Twenty-five current billionaires received their bachelor's degrees at Penn, followed by Harvard College with 22 undergraduate alumni billionaires. The University of Pennsylvania has an undergraduate business program through the Wharton School.
Among the billionaires who hold a tertiary-level degree, 42 per cent graduated with a bachelor's degree, 26 per cent have a master's degree, 21 percent finished their MBA, and 11 percent attained a PhD.[3]
The list is dominated by US universities with 16 of them making it to the top 20, including the first eight positions.[4]
The 25 top colleges by number of billionaires
- University of Pennsylvania - 25
- Harvard College - 22
- Yale College - 20
- New York University - 17[5]
- University of Southern California - 16
- Princeton University - 14
- Cornell University - 14
- Stanford University - 14
- The University of Chicago - 13
- University of California, Berkeley - 12
- University of Mumbai - 12
- London School of Economics - 11
- Lomonosov Moscow State University - 11
- University of Texas - 10
- Dartmouth College - 10
- University of Michigan - 10
- Duke University - 9
- Columbia College - 8
- Brown University - 8
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 7
- ETH Zurich - 6
- Michigan State University - 6
- Babson College - 5
- Carnegie Mellon University - 5
- Vanderbilt University - 4
See also
- List of countries by the number of US dollar billionaires
- List of cities by the number of billionaires
- List of wealthiest historical figures
References
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(help) - ↑ "The 20 Universities That Have Produced The Most Billionaires". Retrieved 2014-09-17.
- ↑ "Mumbai University Has More Billionaire Alumni Than MIT". Retrieved 2014-10-27.
- ↑ "The Top 10 Universities for Billionaire Alumni". Retrieved 2014-09-17.
- ↑ http://www.cnbc.com/id/100475323